Upma with dhaliya and with suji/ bansi rava

Upma is a lifesaver for those busy mornings, a little preparation you can make delicious upma with minimum oil.

Broken Wheat /dhaliya upma

1 cup lapsi/broken wheat(soaked and cooked in the pressure cooker)

1 cup of mixed chopped fresh vegetables like cauliflower, carrot, green peas, beans

1 onion(thinly sliced)

1/2 capsicum(chopped)

2 green chillies(sliced)

One small piece of ginger peeled and grated

A few fresh curry leaves

A pinch of heeng

For the tadka

2 tablespoons of peanut oil/gingelly/ghee

1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds

1/2 teaspoon of urad dal

1 broken red dry chilli

Method

* Wash and soak broken wheat for about an hour in 3 cups of water. Pressure cook and keep aside.

*Add half a cup of warm water in the pressure pan add chopped fresh vegetables. Cook for 5 minutes. Off stove.

* In a heated pan pours oil, mustard, urad dal and red chilli, allow the mustard to splutter.

*Add chopped onion and capsicum. Cook till mild brownish.

*Add the cooked dhaliya, vegetables and tasks, adjust salt, mix well. Garnish with curry leaves. Serve with sambhar or curd.

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Recipe 2 for suji and Bansi rava

 

Bansi rava mixed vegetable upma for breakfast.

Step by step method of preparation. 

Ingredients

1cup Bansi rava 

2 tablespoons of gingly oil(til ka tel)

Method 

Step 1

*In a heated iron kadai pour oil add bansi rava and fry in medium flame till its roasted. 

Step 2

*Chop the following vegetables and leaves and keep aside. 

1 Onion 

1 Tomato (optional)

1 Capsicum 

10 Beans 

1 carrot

A handful of green peas

A few cauliflower florets

Curry leaves a few

Coriander leaves a few

Ginger a small piece

2 Green chillies 

Heeng a pinch

Salt as required 

Variation

2 tablespoon grated coconut

1 green chili

(Grind it into a coarse paste)

Step 3

*Use the same kadai in which you roasted rava.

* Pour a little oil do a quick tadka of mustard, urad dal. Once mustard splutter add vegetables one by one first onion, ginger, green chillies, followed by tomato and other vegetables. 

*Add turmeric, salt, hing, curry leaves and coriander leaves. Allow vegetables to cook well.

* Now add roasted rava and mix well.

*Boil water and our Kadai kadai, make sure you add sufficient water upma to cook. 

*The thumb rule is 1:3 but I add half a cup more. So 3 1/2 cups of water. Allow it to bubble, reduce flame put a lid and let upma cook till soft and fluffy. 

*At the final stage add ghee(optional) and mix gently. Add ground coconut and mix in, it adds a delicious aroma and flavor to the upma. 

*Off stove.

*Close lid and keep for a few minutes before serving. It releases all flavours in the upma.

Happy cooking!